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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by johnnyanmac »

skygazer wrote: post #49
leetrout wrote: post #40

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In larger companies this is how arsonist-firefighter engineers look impressive... fixing a bug they are responsible for while in a highly visible position

I was the young "tech guy" inside the business development department at Earthlink in the mid 90s. The bizdev folks would propose ideas and I would think them through and realize there were technical issues, and when I shared my concerns, they would all be disheartened. But, sometime later, I would figure out a way around the "problem". They were perpetually grateful, but after a number of these iterations, I got the…

I'd see it more as making test cases IRL. you're finding problems to consider and making sure your solution can address for that (even if the solution already did). I'd still be relieved having someone would could consider potential issues that swiftly by my side.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by NavinF »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #104
NavinF wrote: post #103

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- Individual subs like /r/programming are larger. - HN is ~100x smaller than twitter which is itself not even in the top 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_...

Funny I just looked and Reddit says r/programming is 4.1m which last I checked is less than the 5 million unique visitors HN was getting a few years ago when I last saw stats by the moderator and I don't know what it's at now. Twitter works completely differently from most platforms and isn't a unified community.

Where is that 4.1m number from?

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by mardifoufs »

Neywiny wrote: post #92
mardifoufs wrote: post #63

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From what I've seen about AvE he was mostly against the (batshit insane) reaction from the federal government to the truckers convoy in Ottawa. That's the only video that he made specifically about COVID I think (I don't know if he mentioned something else in other videos though). Not sure if that makes him a nutjob lol

Early on he made fun of people who wore masks. I'd watched almost every video for years before that but as one of many impacted by others not taking covid seriously, I went cold turkey.

Tbh it's fine to make fun of that, as long as it's not insulting or conspirational. I've seen tons of humour about masks and mask wearers in the past few years, which makes sense considering how widespread masks were. It's not about taking COVID seriously or not imo, but I guess it depends on one's sense of humour. The way some people who took COVID very seriously acted was very funny, regardless of intentions.

Still, maybe I've missed something ( I don't watch AvE Usually, and watched only a few of his videos in general).

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by johnnyanmac »

doe_eyes wrote: post #21
1-6 wrote: post #19

I’m amazed at how much production goes into each of his videos. His YouTube play button is well deserved.

It's also what bums me out about YouTube. There is an insane amount of effort that goes into producing high-quality videos - orders of magnitude more than would go into putting together a well-illustrated blog post. As with blogs, a lot of this effort is wasted unless you get lucky. But with blogs, at least you have multiple good shots at visibility. Maybe you'll make it to the top of HN, maybe on X, maybe somewhere…

for better or worse, that's because video's infinitely easier to monetize in ways we've been conditioned with for decades. so the payouts for monetized videos are huge compared to a written blog where an ad can clutter and mess up the entire design (which loses you users, losing you better ad rates, and spirals down).

It's also a chicken and egg issue too. People simply watch more than they read most of the time. So videos target more people who gets more ad money who gets better ad rates etc.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by ben_w »

likeclockwork wrote: post #105
Buttons840 wrote: post #57

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Wasn't a lot of the authoritarian concern around COVID based on the idea that "this is just the beginning, today they require masks, tomorrow they'll require implanted tracking devices"? I think history will look at the COVID years and see a remarkable and worldwide pandemic, and society made some rules to try to deal with it, some of the rules may have been a bit much, or poorly informed, but after a few years thing…

Conspiracy theorists refusing to wear masks, which grant anonymity, made me realize that these people aren't actually paranoid they're just contrary.

Good point.

I didn't make that particular leap, but it does also explain why none of the people "worried" that Gates put a microchip in the vaccines seem fussed about Musk developing an actual brain microchip.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by johnnyanmac »

the_gorilla wrote: post #82
chris12321 wrote: post #70

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I'm going to find out a way to automatically hide comments referencing "musk". You can't even read about a 3Blue1Brown video without people somehow making it about him. Every thread, every day, it's just people talking about Elon Musk.

we have a HN API, so it's pretty straightforward once you understand it to make an extension/add-on.

The hard part from there is design decisions. Do you just have that comment disappear, or fade like a downvoted comment? if it disappears do you remove the entire thread? is a contextless match adequate? (say, someone was talking about deoderant?)

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by johnnyanmac »

jweir wrote: post #60

Could having students create their own videos using A Manim explaining aspects of maths be a good way to teach maths? Or would it be more cumbersome and the tools be a distraction or impediment to understanding?

Only if you're students were already expected to know know some programming, and you're fine making some boilerplate. Students already have so much on their plate as is, so trying to learn an API on top of understanding the concepts may be infeasible.

But students who do try to do that will definitely have a deeper understanding on average.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by doe_eyes »

NavinF wrote: post #103
DoreenMichele wrote: post #95

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It's not really that small and I don't know why people say that. Last time I saw stats, it was five million monthly visitors. It's small as a platform. It's smaller than Reddit or Facebook, but those aren't discussion communities. There aren't huge numbers of subreddits larger than five million people and last I looked the largest tended to be about trivial BS. Last I checked, HN is the largest serious tech discussio…

- Individual subs like /r/programming are larger. - HN is ~100x smaller than twitter which is itself not even in the top 10: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_platforms_with_...

I've gotten traffic from HN and /r/programming, and the influx from HN is larger. I think it's a function of two things. First, /r/programming is higher-volume (i.e., more front-page links per day). Second, Reddit subscriber counts are not DAU / MAU, it likely includes a ton of inactive accounts.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

NavinF wrote: post #112
DoreenMichele wrote: post #104

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Funny I just looked and Reddit says r/programming is 4.1m which last I checked is less than the 5 million unique visitors HN was getting a few years ago when I last saw stats by the moderator and I don't know what it's at now. Twitter works completely differently from most platforms and isn't a unified community.

Where is that 4.1m number from?

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